a republican. it's monday, february 25th, and this is "now." >>> joining me today newyorkcitydeputymayor howard wolfson, the queen bee of the greo.com joy reid, eric baits, a contributing he editor at "rolling stone" and a visiting scholar at new york university, and former rnc chairman and msnbc political analyst the notorious michael steel. with four days until the sequester deadline, lawmakers are taking a page from the shaggy playbook and saying it wasn't me. >> it's made up. it's been created. i didn't support the sequester because that's a stupid way to cut spending. >> i think the sequester was a stupid thing. i voted against it when it first came up. >> woodward said it was president obama who proposed and promoted the sequester. >> you have as usual in washington a large kabuki going on about who can get blamed. >> it came from the white house, and the president's aides. >> a psychologist and procrastination expert told the a.p., "congress is pretty much the worst, hands down, of any group we ever investigated. they're worse than college students." despite the fact that both sid

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city. oneway of viewing the vogue for assault weapons is that those geographic distinctions have now become states of mind." >> you know, if we're talking about the shift in the nra's politics from a decade ago until now, there's also this really interesting shift in the kinds of guns people own and, therefore, what people expect the politics of gun ownership to look like. a decade ago we were still talking about an america where, you know, most of the guns sold were rifles, and you could still mrauzably say gun ownership is a hunting culture. in 2010 pistol -- in 2000 rifles are twice pistol sales, basically. in 2010 pistols past rifle. we're thawing did a gun culture that's primarily focused on self-defense. what's weird about that is it's a time that crime is declining pretty rapidly. >> when we talk about -- there is some -- i don't want to put sort of cultural differences at the root of this, but that is some part of that, and i thought actually chris wallace did an effective job of drawing that out from wayne law pierre yesterday when they were talking about the ad that the nra

of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america'sbiggestcities. siemens.answers. >> they're americans in their hearts, in their mipdz, in every single way but one, on paper. >> last year president obama announced an executive action allowing certain children of undocumented workers, or dreamers, to remain in the country without fear of deportation. he took this action after the dream act failed in congress due to a gop-led senate filibuster. according to the pew research center, hispanic center, 1.7 million of the approximately $11 million undocumented people in the u.s. currently qualify as dreamers. >> according it a recent economic constituted kwli passing the dream act would add $329 billion to the u.s. economy and create 1.4 million new jobs by 2030. the dream is now a campaign dedicated to advancing the principles behind the dream act launched by lore even powell jobs, widow of steve jobs. the website the dream is now.org features the stories of several dreamers. one is terrence park. >> just yesterday terrence was accepted into the masters program in biost